Re: [Chicken-users] OK, I jumped the gun a little

[felix winkelmann]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Mark Carter <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sorry guys.
>
> In my recent report, I mentioned about not being able to bootstrap. I didn't 
> read the README :( I'm supposed to obtain a bootstrapper from
> http://chicken.wiki.br/chicken-projects/bootstrap/
> Unfortunately, there isn't one available for cygwin. I guess it's a case of 
> ... wait for it .... wait for it ... solving the chicken and the egg problem.

You can use the mingw binary. Sorry, I forgot to mention that the
bootstrap files have been removed.
They take up too much space in the repository.

>
> Are you completely sure that autotools is not the way to go? I don't know 
> much about it myself, but it is THE build system.
>

Yes. Completely sure.


cheers,
felix